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R. A. HORNING. LANDROLLER.

No. 266,155. Patented 0011.17, 1882.

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LAND ROLLER.

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ROBERT A. HORNING, OF BROOKVILLE, A SSIGNOE OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE D. AND JOHN L. REYNOLDS, OF LANARK, ILLINOIS.

LAND-ROLLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 266,155, dated October 17, 1882.

Application filedMaroh30,1882. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT ALLEN HORN- ING, of Brookville, in the county of Ogle and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Land-Rollers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists in a novel construction and arrangement and combination of two cylinders, one working diagonally in advance 10 of the other, a frame-work to which said cylinders are connected, and certain details of construction and arrangement of the hubs, axles, braces, and an adjustable seat, as hereinafter more particularly described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a side view of an apparatus embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a back view, partly in section. Fig. 3 is aplan view.

A represents a cylinder composed of staves having their ends beveled, and fitting into a head consisting of a band, B, having its outer edge turned outward and backward into a flange, b, the outer surface of which is rounded and the inner surface forms a V-shaped peripherical groove. Each cylinder has two ot'these heads, the grooves of which embrace the bev- 0 eled ends of the stavcs, and thus support them in every direction, the bands being bolted at intervals to several of the staves. From four or more equidistant points on the interior of the cylinder four radial braces, O, extend toward the center, where they are attached to a hub, D, provided with radial wings (I, which are bolted to said braces O. In the hub D works an axle, E, the outer end of which is provided with a pin, a, and washer c and the 0 inner end with a transverse pivot, f, which is engaged by' the outer ends of two clampingplates, 9, having their inner ends bolted to one end of a horizontal beam, H, carried by the lower end of a hanger, J, the upper end of which is attached to a horizontal rail, K. Two

- of these rails are arranged side by side, and connected at front and rear by cross-beams, to the forward one of which is attached the pole or tongue L, provided with a bolt I, for connecting a whifltletree. The two cylinders A are arranged with one diagonally in advance of the other,with one of the hangers J depending from the outer side of one of the rails K and the other hangerdepending from the outer side of the other rail. The rails K, hangers J, beams H, and axlesE are connected and braced by a brace consisting of an iron bar, R, bent in the shape of the letter W, with one end bolted to one rail, the other end bolted to the other rail, and the intermediate upper angle bolted to the tongue L or other suitable part of the frame, at about the center thereof, while the lower angles are formed into bearings, which engage with the outer ends of the axles E. The seat M is carried by the upper end of a curved elastic bar, P, the lower end of which passes under a foot-board, Q, and rests upon the top of the tongue L or the frame formed by the rails and their connecting crossbars. In the bar P is a longitudinal slot,p, through which bolts q pass into the tongue or frame, by which means the seatis held in place and provision is made for adjusting it forward or backward in order to accommodate it to the weight of the driver.

The advantages of my invention are: The rollers being diagonally one in advance of the other, provision is made for allowing their inner ends to pass beyond a line drawn through the longitudinal center of the frame, and thus avoid the break in the work which would occur if the two rollers were in the same axial line. By means of the rounded ends the machine is enabled to turn more easily, and by means of the pivots feaoh roller is enabled to automatically adjust itself to inequalities ofthe ground independently of the other.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patento 1. A roller consisting of end-beveled stares, two bands, B B, turned backward to form a. flange, l), rounded on the outside and V-shaped on the inside, radial braces, and a hub having radial wings bolted to said braces, as shown and 5 described.

2. In a land-roller, the combination of the cylinders A, the radial braces O, and the hubs 1), provided with the radial wings (I, snbstanl tially as and for thepnrposes herein described.

3. In a land-roller, the con1bi1mtion,with the hub D, beam H, and clamping-plates g, of the axles E, provided with the horizontal transverse pivotsf, substantially as and for the pnrpose herein described.

4. The con1bination,\vith the axles, rails, and

tongue, of the W-braoes R, having a hearing at each angle, a connection with one of the rails 10 at each free end, and attached in the middle to the tongue, as shown and described.

' ROBERT ALLEN HORNIXG. \Vitnesses:

O. J. DOWNING, l). W. DAME. 

